Sentence examples for making an effort to avoid from inspiring English sources

Museum officials are still gamely trying to celebrate the institution's 20th anniversary, making an effort to avoid dwelling on the theft.

I spent 18 hours of solid play getting through the main story in Assassin's Creed II while making an effort to avoid distraction.

The film, the first trailer for which has just hit the web, at least seems to be making an effort to avoid overloading filmgoers with saccharine sentimentality or batter our brains into quivering blancmange with a blitzkrieg of pixels and steel.

In an apparent effort to safeguard that overwhelming lead, Mr. da Silva, known as Lula, responded cautiously tonight to the questions put to him, making an effort to avoid being pinned down on a number of issues, including reform of the labor code and gasoline taxes.

OR = odds ratio, CI = confidence interval * p < 0.05, † p < 0.01, ‡ p < 0.001 §Also adjusted for hospital (not shown) In multivariate modelling (Table 3) the odds of having poor health increased about three fold for female nurses and two fold for nurses making an effort to avoid fatty foods in their daily diet.

On the whole, however, Mr. Babbitt made an effort to avoid sensitive lands.

Mr. Lazio, who has expressed some ambivalence about negative campaigning, made an effort to avoid them.

Communications professors aren't equipped to provide counseling, and they make an effort to avoid talking about their students' feelings.

Mr. Brown appears to make an effort to avoid plugging the sport's many corporate sponsors, though it's impossible to keep the omnipresent logos off screen.

Surely, I said, he must have made an effort to avoid having his men on the forward lines, where they might kill his real allies?

Illegal immigrants actually commit fewer crimes than U.S. citizens, as they often "make an effort to avoid any sort of legal situation," says Mr. Ramos.